I thought one of the two went dark a while back. What’s the health status of the two rovers?
IIRC, The dust of Mars had covered the solar panels, but eventually is was cleaned off by the winds.................
I can’t wait until it finds the spot where Neil Armstrong landed!!! /an actual Democrat put into office by voters, paraphrased
check the link— everything you ever wanted to know.
In brief: Very much alive and “roving.” Chugging along like the Energizer bunny’s they are.
It is Winter-on-Mars for one rover—more difficult to charge the batteries with the solar cells, and they don’t move it as much, but it’s moving.
Opportunity and Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004. Both far exceeded their predicted 6-month operational life.
Opportunity is still functioning, after 14 years! Spirit went dark in 2010.
https://marsmobile.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/present/2003/
The much larger Curiosity rover landed in August 2012, and is working fine.